Boot and shoe heel



UNITED sTAiEs PATENT oEEioE.

STEPHEN OLIVER, JR., OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT AND SHOE HEEL.

Specication of Letters Patent No. 17,051, dated April 14, 1857.

To all Loh-m t may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN OLIVER, Jr., of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new or Improved Manufacture of Boot or Shoe Heels; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, exhibits a top view of the said heel; Fig. 2, a front edge View of it; Fig. 3, a longitudinal and central section of it; Fig. t, a side elevation of it; Fig. 5, an underside view of it.

In these drawings, the heel is exhibited as constructed of two separate substances A, B, the lower part (B) being what is termed the bottoming and consists o-f a stratum o-r lift of leather or some other equivalent. The remainder of the heel is composed of gutta percha, or this latter and plumbago or some other suitable hardening material mixed together, the gutta percha being in such proportion in the mixture, that when the composition is heated to or about to the usual temperature` `at which gutta percha is softened or rendered Huid, it may be cast or mo-lded in a mold. The upper part A, has its upper surface made dishing or con cave as shown at a, and besides this, it has a tenon b, extended upward from it and of the same material as the said part A. When a heel is applied to the sole of a shoe, it is calculated that the tenen shall extend through a hole made in the sole to receive it, and that by means of a hot iron applied to the tenon, its upper end may be melted or spread down, like the head of a rivet, and so as to aid in confining'the heel to the sole. Furthermore cement may be used between the heel and sole to cause them to adson may step on a heated surface.

here together. By constructing the upper part of the heel dishing as described such heel will be prevented from turning or sliding laterally o-n the sole, after the tenon may have been treated as described.

In making the heel, a mold or matrix, of the proper form, should be used. Into this mold and so as to rest on its bottom, the bottoming B, should be placed before the gut-ta percha or composition is introduced. This having been accomplished, the gutta percha, or gutta percha composition while in a softened or fluid state is to be pressed so as to fill the matrix, adhere tothe bottom ing, and give form to the heel. The bottoming of leather imparts to the heel, when on the sole of a shoe, the appearance of an ordinary leather heel; and besides this, it prevents the gutta percha part A, from being melted or softened by heat when a per- Besides this, it has other advantages.

A heel constructed in the above described improved manner, is not only stronger and more desirable than one made of leather, but it can be offered at a much less price, and will present quite as good an appearance.

I claim- My improved manufacture of heel as made by a mold and in other respects substantially as described, that is with a gutta percha body and tenen, a concave upper sur face, and a bottoming of leather or its equivalent.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature.

STEPHEN OLIVER, JR.

IVitnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, J r. 

